"genesis project"

In this Premiere Pro Basics series we'll cover these two useful and powerful features. Automate to sequence can help you get a jump start on framing out the story or timeline while applying an effect across multiple clips (like a cross dissolve) will speed the editing process along.

Join Dennis as he discusses and shows a workflow that provides flexibility when using Dynamic Link and After Effects. After Effects plus Premiere Pro make for a unique and powerful combination for content creators. This workflow provides flexibility within Premiere Pro to allow users the ability to jump back or rebuild the effect if they find their first attempt wanting.

Photoshop is the most powerful image editing software in around so it stands to reason that it would be very useful in creating titles and graphics for a video production. Watch this inaugural episode of Premiere Pro Basics in Adobe Beginner Classes to get some of the essential skills necessary to become a productive editor.

Wish you could render After Effects comps in the background? Wish you could create a watch folder to batch convert media? Wish you had a 64-bit capable application to do all of these things? Well, Adobe Media Encoder is all of that and more. In this episode, Dennis delves into what he thinks are the hidden gems of this under-appreciated application.

Many times, I've seen great work that was somewhat spoiled by the fact that it employed a reflection as part of the design. Creating a reflection on any image is a fairly easy thing to do and in this episode we'll look at some techniques to make a convincing and realistic reflection within Adobe Photoshop.

Motion Graphics is tremendous fun and you never learn enough to satisfy you. But what if you're just getting started? This tutorial gives you some basic ideas on building a simple motion graphics composition - in this case a wedding type theme. Simple, easy and hopefully entertaining.

Picking up from the last time, watch Dennis as he takes the Photoshop file created from our picture and bring it into After Effects to give it life, movement and the pursuite of 3D. Learn some basics of animating a still inside of After Effects with this tutorial.

Many times, we've seen a photograph brought to life and given movement and depth. How do you do it? With Adobe CS5, some new tools have come around to make this process easier than ever before. Join Dennis as he takes you through the first of two parts in creating an animated clip from a single photograph

Discover how easy it is to harness After Effects to create compelling, deep motion graphics with very little thought. In this episode, Dennis walks through how a single element can be combined and reused to create a nice background element.

In this final part of our 'Day of Destruction', Dennis winds up his mock 2012 promo. In this episode, you'll see the finishing touches as well as get an insight into an innovative way to work with audio with Soundbooth for an After Effects project.

In this third installment, we start to put our 2012 end-of-the-world movie comp together. We'll see the Earth brown and die and our 2012 text suck the atmosphere from the Earth. Depressing yes, but fun inside of After Effects!

Looking for something dynamic and new for your After Effects work? In this second of a four part series, Dennis shows the essential techniques to have elements come together in smokey bits again with no third party effects.